What if half the amount of your regular diet is enough to make you feel full? Two cups of rice before, down to only one cup. Two donut breads before, and now you are satisfied with only one. What I am saying can be realized with discipline. Know the amount of food that is enough […]

Food manufacturers may practice one or more of the following in stealth mode. 1) Replacement of ingredients with non-noticeable alternatives. Using carabeef instead of beef for making corned beef is easy without the customer noticing. In fact, I never knew this technique until a person from a meat factory told me personally. Another example, the […]

Any food item is considered expired when it is not fit for human consumption or its original appearance has undergone a significant change. Example of the first, bacterial growth, rancidity and unexpected modification of chemical makeup. Example of the latter, pineapple slices in can became shredded, a hardened milk powder and a liquified instant coffee […]

I felt a sudden curiosity about which commercially available foods has the most number of ingredients. I immediately checked the canned vienna sausage on my hand. Then grabbed other food items inside the house such as tomato sauce, soy sauce, fish sauce, energen cereal drink, gatorade and several milk formulas. The last set of items […]

Where do we often see color coding scheme? During travels. The traffic lights are color coded. Green for go, orange for ready, and red for stop. Vehicle plates. Green for private vehicles, yellow for commuters, red for government owned and blue for consuls. Schools. Not really a color coding scheme but every school tend to […]